Middle-aged Love Patch

"Young kite, young kite."

Shi Ye who was sitting across from her called Xu Youyuan, and Xu Youyuan suddenly came to her senses.

"Well, yes, very good." Xu Youyuan replied.

"What the hell." Shi Ye laughed, "May I ask if you can add roast duck to your new food game? It's very good. I don't think you have much energy, what are you thinking?"

Seeing Shi Ye and other friends in front of her, Xu Youyuan remembered that the game was very popular, and Sister Lu gave her another wave of bonuses.She only kept 1 yuan, and the rest went to Shiyue.The 1 yuan was used to invite friends to dinner.

Now they are having dinner at the Kagura izakaya.

Originally, she called Shi Yue to come with her, but Shi Yue didn't come.

"I want to calm down." When Shi Yue said this to her, she saw Shi Yue's unprecedentedly disappointed eyes through the crack of the door that was about to close.

"Hmm..." Xu Youyuan didn't force her, because she also felt that it would be better for the two of them to calm down.

"Roast duck, that's right, how can there be such a classic dish, I'll write it down." Xu Youyuan took out her phone and tried to unlock it, but she couldn't unlock it after shaking her face for a long time.

Jiang Yun: "Sister Bird, you have held your phone upside down."

Xu Youyuan: "..."

Shi Ye: "What's the matter with you? You're absent-minded. What's the matter with you and Xiaoyue? What's wrong with you living together?"

Ah Gan and Jiang Yun: "Huh? Are you living together? When did it happen?"

Xu Youyuan: "Not long ago, less than a month."

"It's been almost a month, and you didn't tell the sisters! Sister Niao didn't come to share it to make us happy when you're done! You're too mean!"

Everyone kept congratulating, and Sister Hui, who was sitting next to Jiang Yun, saw it, leaned on Jiang Yun's shoulder and said: "You little kids are chattering, stop making noise, let Youyuan say it herself, she will definitely meet It's a difficult situation."

As soon as Sister Hui spoke, everyone fell silent, staring at Xu Youyuan, waiting for her to speak.

"Actually, I encountered some difficulties in the game." The phone was tossed and turned in Xu Youyuan's hands.

"Game?" Shi Ye said, "You mean you guys are secretly... ahem, encountering difficulties in the game? Isn't that right, will there be any problems with a master like you?"

"It's different." Xu Youyuan knew that Shi Ye wanted to help her hide the fact that she and Shi Yue were dating in the secret room, but now she doesn't mind anymore. No one cares about how many professional players the season in the dark room has attracted. Treat it as a simple hook-up software, and the dark box is now completely a hot love game, so there is no shame in mentioning it.

More importantly, Xu Youyuan doesn't have the energy to conceal this matter now.

"Shi Yue and I are stuck in the last stage of the dark room love theme, which is also the last scene of the qualifiers. The dark room is the dark room you know..."

Xu Youyuan popularized the dark box game for everyone, thinking that everyone probably didn't play this former lower three-way game much.I didn't expect to need much explanation, everyone understands.

Well, it turns out that everyone is playing secretly, even the best friend hasn't revealed it...

Xu Youyuan was shocked, and looked around at the old sisters with wretched smiles: "Okay, if you all play, it will save me effort, so I'll just say it."

Four days ago, Xu Youyuan and Shi Yue happily entered the dark room, intending to clear the last scene.

Xu Youyuan is ready for how real the real world will be.

Even with a strong psychological preparation, this final scene was beyond expectations.

The rules of the third stage of the love theme are different from the previous two stages. The most important thing is the heartbeat index, but the partners don’t need to play other roles, and they don’t have to go through the process of searching. They even get it as soon as they enter the game. A character appearance very close to the real one.

The names used by the characters are the same as their nicknames, and their ages are closer to reality. Xu Youyuan is 38 years old and Shi Yue is 29 years old.

This real feeling, combined with the precautions displayed when entering the scene, shows a more mysterious atmosphere.

【Precautions……

Two: You and your partner share weal and woe, and have gone through countless ups and downs to arrive here.But it's all a game, and you all know it's a game.What if it is real life?

"In poverty or in wealth, in health or in sickness, you can cherish each other until death do you part."

Can the two people who love each other overcome everything with love?

In the real world, there are answers you want. 】

Entering the game scene, Shi Yue is still not around, and Xu Youyuan appears in an old house with one bedroom and one living room.

The character controlled by Xu Youyuan looks exactly like her in appearance, but has a different occupation.

She is a housewife and Shi Yue is an office worker. They have a sick 3-year-old child.

The sound of the child coughing and the strong smell of medicine occupy every corner of this small house.

[System prompt: You will experience real human events together with your partner 'Plasma Cream Cake with Flowers'. Please maintain a heartbeat index of more than 15 points during the 50-year game time. If it is lower than 50 points, it will be judged as a fail. 】

"Ten, 15 years?"

Those present were all terrified when they heard what Xu Youyuan said: "Are you going to spend 15 years in the game?"

Xu Youyuan's throat was dry, and she took a sip of water: "It's 15 years of game time. In reality, it's only about 48 hours, but it will make players feel as long as the real 15 years."

Sister Hui's expression also became a little serious: "For such a long time, you have to maintain a good impression of someone all the time, tsk... who can do it?"

Xu Youyuan: "As many teams enter the competition stage, there are as many people who can do it. At first, I felt that I was scaring people again. Shi Yue and I definitely have no problem with what other people can do. Maybe we underestimated the enemy. , From the very beginning, we were not going well. After all, the more people enter the competition stage, the more people can be eliminated.”

In this scene, various family situations can become a floating window floating above and below the field of vision. Xu Youyuan poured out the medicine, and after feeding the child to calm her cough, Xu Youyuan checked the current family situation.

Both Xu Youyuan and Shi Yue's parents are still alive, which means that in addition to supporting themselves and their children, they also need to support their elders.

A 25-year-old old house in the urban area with a usable area of ​​42 square meters and no possibility of demolition.

What broke Xu Xiaoyuan the most was seeing the deposit column.

12000 yuan...

What the hell, poorer than when Xu Youyuan lived in the western suburbs!

Looking at the income and expenses of the last year, more than half is spent on children's medical treatment, the remaining 1/2 is living expenses, and 1/2 is spent on the elderly and family money.

Shiyue works in a very ordinary technology company. She is still an ordinary employee at the age of 29 and earns 14500 yuan a month.

This character setting is not very scientific for Shiyue, but it cannot be denied that it is indeed the life that most ordinary people in 2036 are most likely to experience.

After receiving more than 1 yuan every month, there is not a single cent left, and the deposit was forced by Xu Youyuan from Shiyue's year-end bonus last year.

Xu Youyuan felt very awkward. Although she was poor, she did not live frugally in family life and brought her children to poverty.

If she feels uncomfortable, Shi Yue must be even more uncomfortable.After all, Shi Yue grew up in a superior family. Based on her own ability, she was young and promising, and she probably never went to work to get angry, let alone a hard life.

She and Shi Yue have been married for 4 years, and their mutual heartbeat index is only 52 points.

In other words, if you drop another 3 points, you will immediately fail.

It is really 15 years that people dare not neglect for a moment.

Xu Youyuan was in a trance when the child suddenly turned over and fell off the bed, crying loudly.

Xu Youyuan had never brought a child before, so she didn't know that the child would fall down by herself, so she quickly picked her up.

"Mom, it hurts."

Xu Youyuan didn't know how to hold the child properly, the way she held her was not very sophisticated, but the child still kissed her very much and acted like a baby in her arms.

When the child was snuggling up to Xu Youyuan, Xu Youyuan looked seriously at her little face, her eyes were very similar to Shi Yue's, and she looked sweet when she smiled.The nose and mouth are actually [-]% similar to him.

If she and Shi Yue really had a baby, it would be like this.

Thinking of this, Xu Youyuan immediately understood that the child was made by systematically extracting her and Shi Yue's appearance characteristics.The appearance that resembles the player will give the player a more real sense of immersion, and will also have a deeper bond with the fate of the child.

After Xu Youyuan found out about this, no matter how she looked at the child, she felt sorry for her, and she was more careful in taking care of her.

The child's name hasn't been chosen yet, the system prompts Xu Youyuan to ask her to name the child.

Not to mention children, even after cats and dogs are named, this feeling is established. If you have a deep relationship, you don't want to watch the child suffer, and you will invest more money in it.

Xu Youyuan planned not to be named first.

Find the partition that is placed next to the bed to prevent children from falling, and stand it up so that the child cannot fall down.

As soon as the partition was erected, Xu Youyuan smelled a strange smell, looked for the smell and went to the kitchen, and there were all dishes and chopsticks that hadn't been washed in time.

There is no dishwasher in the house.

It's still winter.

Always have gloves!Xu Youyuan looked around, okay, it's easy to handle with gloves.

Put on gloves to wash the dishes, turn to the hot water side with a little luck, and turn to the end.Ok, no hot water.

I just washed a bowl, and found that my glove was torn, and I poured cold water into it. Halfway through washing the bowl, my fingers were frozen, so I had to boil some boiling water and mix it with it.

The boiling kettle was covered with limescale, Xu Youyuan took a look at the internal situation and felt that it would be a year of trouble.

Boil water first, and then clean up after washing the dishes.Xu Youyuan stuck the kettle on the chassis. Just as there was some movement inside the kettle, there was a "pop" sound and the room was completely dark. The only light source came from the balcony full of debris.

power cut?

Xu Youyuan walked to the door vigilantly, wanting to see the situation through the peephole first, wondering if there would be any sudden danger.

I walked to the wooden door and looked around, but there was no peephole.

Xu Youyuan: "..."

Slowly open the wooden door. Fortunately, there is an iron door outside. The lower half of the iron door is solid, and the upper half is somewhat hollowed out, covered with gauze.This kind of iron door Xu Youyuan remembers seeing it when she was a child when she went back to her grandfather's house, it was very old-fashioned.

The part where the gauze mesh is connected to the iron gate is broken in several places. I don’t know if it was broken by the old man or someone cut it. It looks like it has been broken for a long time, but no one has repaired it.

What a day it's been...

There was no one else in the corridor. There were no elevators for three households on the first floor, two households on the left and one household on the right. The fire safety door was tied open by a rope. The corridor was full of sundries and dusty baby carriages.The property asked the owners to take away the sundries as soon as possible, otherwise the notice that would easily cause a fire was posted in the most prominent position, but it was obvious that the owners were indifferent.

Xu Youyuan opened the door and went out, only to see that the battery had run out.The system prompts that you need to find an electric card to go to the bank to buy electricity.

As a modern person whose monthly utility bills are automatically deducted, Xu Youyuan has never gone to the bank to buy electricity.Not to mention electricity, she seldom needs cash, and feels that the old-fashioned banks are very inefficient, and she doesn't know why they haven't been eliminated yet.

Now she understands that there are still many old houses that cannot be liquidated online, and water and electricity have to be paid at the bank and the water company.

Xu Youyuan rummaged through the box and found the bank card. When she went out, the child started coughing again and asked her where she was going.Xu Youyuan was a little worried that this silly child would stay at home by herself, so she pushed the stroller and carried her in.

It was only when I pushed the cart out that I realized that there is no elevator in this old house!

Looking at the child in the stroller who was sweating and having difficulty breathing, he asked her, "Can you stay at home alone?"

The child pouted, but said nothing.

Forget it, let's take it...

Asking the child to wait for her at home, Xu Youyuan carried the stroller downstairs and set it aside, then came up and carried the child down.

Fortunately, the child was sick and thin, so Xu Youyuan didn't have much trouble picking it up, and it was easy for her to walk down from the sixth floor.It's just that when I went down the stairs, I couldn't see the path under my feet. I had to stretch my neck and try to look forward, stepping on every step carefully.

Afraid of falling down with the child, Xu Youyuan spent a long time on the sixth floor before reaching the end. Her muscles were tired from holding the child and tense from tension, and her physical strength dropped rapidly.

Putting the child in the stroller, when Xu Youyuan pushed the stroller to the bank, she found that her stamina dropped faster than in all previous scenes.

Is it because of the emphasis on realism at this stage?

The bank is not far from home, 1.8 kilometers away.

Anyway, she is a housewife and doesn't need to rush to work, she can just walk slowly by pushing the car.

However, there are many steps up and down the old street along this road, and the flat road is also bumpy and not easy to walk. There are construction sections along the street, let alone pushing a cart, even walking alone is tiring enough.

After finally tossing and going to the bank, Xu Youyuan was already out of breath with sweat on her forehead.

The feeling of low back pain was real and clear, and Xu Youyuan entered the bank with a single cart on her waist.As soon as the bank's automatic door opened, human voices instantly drowned her out.

Well, so many people!

Xu Youyuan glanced at the crowded lobby of the bank, dumbfounded.

The bank staff came up to ask her what business she needed to do, and Xu Youyuan said that I bought electricity.

The staff pointed her to the automatic payment machine next to the ATM machine outside, and asked her to pay there.

Relieved, Xu Youyuan immediately went to the automatic payment machine to pay, and inserted both the electric card and the bank card.When I got to the payment page, I kept waiting, and waited for almost 1 minute before telling her that it failed.

Withdraw the two cards and try again, every step is so slow that it makes people irritable.After finally coming to the payment page again, after waiting with tingling scalp, it failed again.

Xu Youyuan held back her anger and went to find the staff, who came over slowly and repeated what she had done twice just now, but it was still a familiar failure.

"Oh, it may be broken." The staff said, "Then you can go to the window with a number to handle it."

Glancing at the window that had been flooded by old men and women, Xu Youyuan asked, "Is that the window over there?"

"Yes." The staff has already printed out a small note and handed it to her, "Go to whichever window calls your number."

The number 1023 was written on the paper, Xu Youyuan looked up at the three windows, and the nearest number was 3.

asphyxia.

"I have been to that kind of old-fashioned bank." A Gan said, "I used to work in a small company in the suburbs when I first started working. People really can’t keep up, and they don’t like to deal with AI, and old men and women still like to go to the bank to meet people face-to-face to be at ease.”

"That's right!" Xu Youyuan said, "It's that kind of place!"

Sister Hui, who was born in the 90s, said: "Isn't it normal to go to the bank to queue up to do business? You children, if you make you wait for a while, you will scream."

"It's really not as simple as waiting for a while..."

Xu Youyuan pushed the cart and had no place to sit, so she just stood aside and waited.

From the conversations of the old men and women, it can be heard that half of them have children who go out to work and do not know how to use apps. Many businesses do not know how to operate on mobile phones, so they come to the bank to ask people.Another half want to buy wealth management products such as treasury bonds and gold, but they don't trust mobile phone software and want to consult with someone from a bank.

There are only 3 windows, there is no financial manager, and they are all piled up together.People chat for a long time as soon as they sit, and the teller is also slow and not in a hurry.Xu Youyuan waited until her back legs were almost broken, and she didn't go home until the afternoon.

Both she and the child were hungry and planned to order takeaway.

Just a dish and a soup cost more than 60 yuan, what kind of takeaway can you eat with such a small deposit... Xu Youyuan's meat hurts, why don't you cook it yourself.

Cook the rice, open the refrigerator to see what is there to eat

All I had in the freezer was a frozen tenderloin, a half-eaten can, and a big bag of pickles.

Xu Youyuan: "..."

"This is just the beginning." Xu Youyuan said to her friends who looked sympathetic, "Cook some porridge with pickles, and eat it after you deal with it. But the pressure on Shiyue is even greater."

After Shi Yue entered the game, she found herself in a very small company, with an old-fashioned computer in front of her, filled with dense tables full of data.

Shi Yue scrolled down the form. This is the order statistics form. There are many mistakes but it is very simple, and she can quickly modify it.

The small office was very stuffy, filled with the smell of smoke, making it difficult for Shi Yue to breathe, and her eyes became more and more uncomfortable.

However, the monitor of this broken computer is too old to age, and the screen keeps flickering.

Shi Yue insisted on finishing the form, but couldn't save it.

Shi Yue: "?"

The boss came out of the office, snapped his fingers at Shi Yue, and said impatiently, "How long do you want me to wait?"

Shi Yue has finished, but she can't give it to the boss.

"2 minutes." Shi Yue smiled at him.

Boss: "If you don't receive the form within 2 minutes, get out of here."

Shi Yue ignored him, and directly copied the final data into the text, and sent the screenshot to the boss.

Afterwards, Shiyue pulled the cable behind the monitor forcefully, and the screen blurred instantly.

"What's going on! Just give me a screenshot? Where's the form!" The boss rushed out again.

Shi Yue pointed to the computer with a blurred screen: "The computer is broken, luckily I rescued the data."

The boss saw that there was indeed a problem with the screen, so he lowered his voice and went back to the office cursing.

When the boss closed the door, Shi Yue directly dismantled the case, and performed the show to the end.

It was past half past six, and no one left the office.Shi Yue saw that there were games or chat windows hidden on the slanted computer screens of colleagues, and they stayed here to play without going home, wasting time.

This is her least favorite way.

Shi Yue was looking forward to going home and meeting Xu Youyuan soon.

You know, this time it's not some plot to find her in the crowd, the two of them are legal wife and wife!It's a couple!Open the panel and you can see it!Not only are they married, but they also have children!

Of course, people with families have to rush home to accompany their wives, who cares about going to this ghost class!

Shi Yue wanted to send a pennant directly to the project team, thanking her colleagues for fulfilling her wish for many years.

However, she can't go yet.

Emotionally speaking, she can't wait to go home immediately to enjoy the warmth and sweetness of home, but she also sees the current basic situation of the family.

The child's health index is very low. The scene is set when Xu Youyuan had high blood pressure when she gave birth. He fell ill and couldn't go to work for the time being. The whole family's income depended on Shiyue working overtime from [-] to [-] to earn back the little living expenses.

The frightening thing is that their savings are less than one month's wages, and Shi Yue has no way out.You must not lose your current job until you find a new one.

Bite the bullet and finally hold on until a colleague left work first, Shi Yue also quickly clocked in, planning to sneak home.

"Wait a minute, come here." The boss suddenly appeared again and stopped her, "What are you running for? What time is it? Every day you slip the fastest!"

Shi Yue smiled and said, "Boss, do you have any orders?"

"It's a lot! Do you want me to do so much work alone?" The boss loosened his belt and relieved his swollen belly a little. "You want to run before I leave. Who is it?" boss?"

Shi Yue didn't argue with him, obediently went into the house to get the job, and came out with a bunch of documents.

What the hell, what era is this scene, and paperless office has not yet been realized?

Shi Yue, who was given special care, worked until 08:30 in the evening. After everyone left, she did not finish the temporary work assigned by her boss.The whole building was empty when I left the office.

When entering the last scene, Shi Yue already understood the special mechanism of this scene.

Since it is called "the real world", it is for the players to experience the real suffering in the world and test the tacit understanding and love between the two sides in the cruelest life.

Human essence?nonexistent.

genius?Also does not exist.

Similar to the previous two stages, the description of this stage states that the difficulty of the game will be adjusted according to the player's IQ.

Before entering the game, the two of them entered the closed passage respectively, and the scene in front of them was loading. Because there are 15 years of game time, it takes a little time to load, and the progress bar is much slower than before.

While waiting for the scene to be built, players have a questionnaire to fill out. After filling out, the number of failures in this scene can be increased to four times.

"Shiyue!" Xu Youyuan called Shiyue in private chat.

Shi Yue said, "Have you seen this questionnaire too?"

Xu Youyuan: "I saw it... so there is a limit to the number of times this scene is?"

Shi Yue said: "Yes, but the number of replays is actually not to increase the difficulty, but to reduce the difficulty. It is very considerate for the players. After all, after playing the whole scene, you will feel like you have spent 15 years. Players who play more times His mental state might break down. If we come to settle the score with us at that time, the score will not be settled."

"It's no wonder that there are so many teams participating in the preliminaries, and less than one in a thousand entered the competition stage. So there is an elimination mechanism." Xu Youyuan said, "Let's fill out the questionnaire, it's good to have another chance .”

"Fill, I've already filled it out."

Xu Youyuan glanced at the questionnaire, the questionnaire was very simple, just fill in the real age and occupation, basic statistics of the user base.

During these normal operations, Xu Youyuan saw a question: "What do you most want to do with your partner in the scene? Answer: Do ____"

Xu Youyuan wrote a word expressionlessly.

Shi Yue asked her at the right time: "What did you write in the last question?"

Xu Youyuan asked back: "What did you write?"

Shi Yue: "I wrote a word."

"Coincidentally, I also wrote a word. Is there anything tricky about this questionnaire?"

Xu Youyuan's sense was too keen, Shi Yue immediately said: "No."

"That's it."

"Hey you, you still ask me if you don't believe me?"

"Go in the opposite direction of what you say, and you'll get real answers. Your words work just as well."

Shi Yue: "..."

After completing the questionnaire, an IQ test must be taken.

IQ test Xu Youyuan has seen the explanation in the scene description, the higher the player's IQ, the more difficult the scene will be.

As Xu Youyuan walked forward, the problem came on her face.She deliberately answered a few wrong questions during the test, and the channel instantly turned red.

[System prompt: Please choose the answer that you really approve of, otherwise you will be punished as cheating. 】

Xu Youyuan had no choice but to take a few steps back and choose the correct answer before moving on.

The two finally passed the passage and were about to enter the scene.Shi Yue asked Xu Youyuan: "How much did you score in the IQ test?"

"166, how about you?"

"Coincidentally, I am also 166." Shi Yue sighed, "So this means, this time it must be hell difficulty."